Choosing one thing over another doesn't necessarily mean we love the thing we choose. If given the choice to eat spinach or broccoli, you may choose broccoli. It may only mean you don't want to eat spinach. Heaven is not for people who just want to skip Hell. Heaven is reserved for those who love Jesus, who have been rescued by Him and who long to praise Him. If someone doesn't have much use for praising Him now, it's foolish to think they're ready for Heaven.

The great message that we call the gospel begins, then, not with us, or our need, or even the meeting of that need, but with the writer of the news and the sender of its heralds: God himself.

"Being a good steward" and "placing your hope in" is not the same thing.

If you are in Christ, you are fully and completely forgiven for all your sin-past, present and future.

God's response to the belittlement of his name, from the beginning of time, has been the sacrifice of Jesus Christ on a Roman cross.

If all you got is "I don't want to be that" then sell insurance.

When we see the bankruptcy, slavery, and vanity of everything else, we can finally say, ‘To die is gain.’